My Work — Nikki Piccini

Selected Work

My Work

A collection of my work solving high-impact problems within complex systems.

BEFORE 300% TICKETS AFTER 50%+ FEWER TICKETS Onboarding support tickets, before and after
Flagship · UX Strategy · Infrastructure iCEV · 2024

Designing Infrastructure to Stabilize Onboarding

A dashboard request became a platform-wide infrastructure initiative after discovery revealed the real problem was an onboarding process the platform was never built to handle at scale.

HIDDEN ARTEMIS AI Always there. Never visible. DISCOVERED 95% USER SUCCESS RATE ★ 2025 MUSE DESIGN AWARD — SILVER 5 Alarm / Anthem Entertainment · B2B Media Licensing
UX Strategy · Internal Tools · AI Integration 5 Alarm · 2023

Anthem: Closing the Gap Between Platform Capability and User Belief

A visual redesign brief became a platform strategy engagement. The platform wasn't failing users because it lacked features — it was failing because users didn't know those features existed.

STUDENT ASSESSMENT STATUS Alvarez, M. Unit 4 Pretest PENDING Chen, J. Unit 4 Pretest PENDING Torres, R. Unit 4 Pretest PENDING Okafor, T. Unit 4 Pretest COMPLETE 3 SELECTED ASSIGN TEST RESET SCORE EXPORT Bulk action pattern — compliance at scale
UX Strategy · Feature Design · Bulk Actions iCEV · 2024

Designing for Compliance: Pretest Infrastructure and Bulk Action Patterns at Scale

Strategic initiative for pretest/posttest feature development and bulk action pattern implementation across a platform serving hundreds of thousands of educators.

Student Engagement Report UNIT 4 EXPORT ↓ STUDENT LESSONS MEDIA ASSESSMENTS TOTAL Reyes, C. 12m Okafor, T. 48m Alvarez, M. 56m Chen, J. 41m ~60% TICKET REDUCTION IN BETA 3 platforms unified under one pattern 0 existing docs at project start Student engagement reporting — iCEV · 2025
UX Strategy · Information Architecture · EdTech iCEV · 2025

Rebuilding Student Engagement Reporting from Behavioral Memory

When an acquisition eliminated a core teacher workflow overnight, restoring it meant defining a system that had never been formally documented — and establishing the reporting foundation for three products in the process.

Surgical Performance Report — Cataract Procedure TRAINEE SESSION 7 82 /100 AGGREGATE SCORE ↑ +6 pts from last session SCORE + RATIONALE ALWAYS PAIRED ↓ PHASE SCORE RATIONALE Capsulorhexis 68 Tear geometry — 2 criteria Phacoemulsification 84 Power modulation — 3 criteria IOL Implantation 91 Centration + stability — 4 criteria 100% USABILITY COMPLETION HIPAA · ADA · JHU Security compliance built in, not bolted on 1 design system, procedure-agnostic AI surgical score report — Circlage / Johns Hopkins · 2022
UX Research · Strategy · IA · Healthcare AI Circlage / JHU · 2022

Designing the Interface for an AI Surgical Mentor

A question about how AI feedback on surgical technique should look and feel became a research and strategy engagement at the intersection of clinical expertise, HIPAA compliance, and the hard problem of designing trust into an AI product.

BEFORE REVENUE / MARGIN $48,220 · 34.2% Order #4821 — View details → Order #4820 — View details → Order #4819 — View details → call client re: art files check → 3× NAVIGATE AWAY per order processed AFTER CLIENT AUTOFILL ✓ SHIPPING BILLING SUMMARY $3,840 24 units 2 products Game Jersey S×2 M×6 L×4 XL×2 Practice Hoodie M×4 L×4 XL×2 SUBMIT ORDER 40% FASTER PROCESSING Order entry dashboard, before and after consolidation
UX Strategy · Dashboard Design · Internal Tools Ares Sportswear · 2022

Designing for Throughput: Order Entry Infrastructure at Ares Sportswear

A spike in conversion exposed a hidden bottleneck — the internal order entry tool wasn't built for the volume it now had to handle. Eight weeks from discovery to dev handoff, rebuilding a fragmented workflow into a single self-contained dashboard.